Block 11 was strictly
isolated from the rest of the camp. Here were detainment, starvation, suffocation,
and stand-up cells. For a painting that brings this to life see [link].

"Trials of
[the poison gas, hydrogen cyanide] for killing people were begun in the summer
of 1941, in the basement of Block 11 (at the time number 13). An unknown number
of Soviet POWs were killed in one of the windowless basement chambers. Here
is Broad's recollection of the event: 'One day corpses of Russian POWs were
dragged out of a dark cell. As they lay in the yard, they looked strangely bloated
and had a bluish tinge, though they were relatively fresh. Several older prisoners
who had been through World War I remembered seeing corpses like that. Suddenly
they understood... gas!...' "*